Hirotaka Shirotsubaki has been played on NTS in shows including youarelistening.to, featured first on 18 March 2017. Songs played include April Lantern Magic, Melt Into Spring and Cold Mountain.

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki is a Japanese ambient artist from a small town in Kobe and was born in 1986. He began his career in 2011. Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings in the suburbs where he grew up, his early music’s major themes were the city and nature. However, his later music tends towards the impersonal, allowing each listener to fit the sounds into the spaces of his or her life, attempting to link the ideas of…